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A team at the University of Illinois known as Petronics has posted a project on Kickstarter named Mousr—it's a toy mouse for your cat that has smarts built in so that your cat won't grow bored with it. ...

(Phys.org) —The Raspberry Pi, that very low cost, little Linux computer, is living up to its backers' dreams of becoming not only a learning tool but a versatile mainstay for having fun with tinkering and ...

Bitcoin, 3-D printed candy and George Takei, the Star Trek-actor-turned-Facebook-phenomenon, are among the attractions this week at the South By Southwest festival in Austin, Texas, where the geek set is ...

(PhysOrg.com) -- After a wave of 3D movies such as Alice in Wonderland and Avatar, and a number of television manufacturers producing 3D TVs this year, there is growing interest in a three-dimensional viewing ...

Video-game fans who reserved Sony's PlayStation 4 several months ago won't have any regrets when it goes on sale in North America on Friday: The PS4 is a terrific game machine that will feel familiar to PlayStation ...

The $300 goggles that Irvine, Calif.-based Oculus VR began shipping to software developers in March deliver a glimpse of a futuristic technology that's been long awaited by video gamers. They allow a player ...

(Phys.org) —Sony announced Thursday that its Digital Paper device will be available in May through a select group of Worldox agents, priced at $1,100. The product is intended for professionals catching ...

(PhysOrg.com) -- Airenergy is a gadget that can harvest free electricity from WiFi signals such as those from a wireless Internet connection, apparently with enough efficiency to make it practical for recharging ...